It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

— Michael Crichton

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's…

— Steve Martin

Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge

— Manuel Castells

“metaphysics by showing that these theories are not just false, but unintelligible.”

— David Hume

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

— Dallas Willard

“It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.”

— Robert Braathe

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

— Justin Long

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

— Clarice Lispector

Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

— Stephen Batchelor

“The average page of a book weighs about 0.035 of an ounce, but getting people to keep turning them takes enormous effort.”

— Dave Preston

I think most people know when they're in a toxic relationship - it requires an enormous amount of effort to keep it going, and…

— Joanna Coles

I think it actually makes more sense for a new audience than the old show did because we're focusing on one character at a…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

“It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they…

— Michael Crichton

“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Theory shows a way to a goal, but it is not the goal. Theory offers security, but there are no secure theories. Theories shed…

— D.A. Blankinship